Formatting a mail merge document

One of the things that I think it's important to keep in mind when working on …a mail merge document is that the mail merge fields you insert are essentially …just text. Now, I realize they seem special and in …fact they are special. Those mail merge fields are just …placeholders for the actual text that will be inserted in the document in those …various places based on the source data. In this case, I have a letter that …includes a variety of different mail merge fields, and those mail merge fields …reference an Excel spreadsheet that includes a list of dog owners.…

Now of course, those fields are included in with the text, but what might not be …immediately obvious is that you can format those fields even though they're …not what you might think of as normal text within the document. …For example, in a couple of places in the letter here, we've inserted the name of …the owner's dog. So we'll be sending a letter to the dog …owner, and we're referencing the name of the dog within the body of the letter. …

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1/28/2013

One of the most powerful features of Microsoft Word 2010 is mail merge, which is simple in principle, but sometimes tricky in execution. In this workshop Tim Grey takes you step by step through the process of creating a mail merge. Learn how to prepare your source data, create a document, and merge the two to create individualized letters, envelopes, labels, and more. Along the way, gain an understanding of the options available to you when creating a mail merge in Word and gain confidence in your ability to create even complex mail merges with minimal effort.